The WORST episodes of Man vs. Wild
Every episode of Man vs. Wild ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Man vs. Wild!
MAN VS. WILD brings seasoned adventurer Bear Grylls face to face with the grueling task of navigating remote locations, sharing invaluable survival strategies along the way.
#1 - Bears Ultimate Survival Guide Part One
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/23/2009
Grylls offers tips for surviving in some of the world's most unforgiving places.
#2 - Guatemala
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/27/2010
Grylls rappels onto a live volcano in Guatemala, navigates a waterfall in an underground cave, creates a nest to safely sleep in but gets an unwelcome bed buddy, and encounters ancient Mayan ruins.
#3 - Oregon
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/26/2009
Grylls takes on the deepest river based canyon, Hell's Canyon and the dangerous Snake River.
#4 - Northern Australia
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/1/2009
In Australia's Northern Territory, Grylls must rely on many of the skills honed by the Aboriginal people to survive in this sweltering landscape dominated by crocodiles.
#5 - Working in the Wild
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/26/2011
Bear Grylls takes the viewer behind the scenes to meet the crew that follow his every step through the world’s wildest environments.
#6 - The Inside Story
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/23/2009
The Man vs. Wild crew who follow Grylls on his travels across the globe, tell how it feels to follow in his footsteps and reveal just how they make Man vs. Wild.
#7 - The Deep South
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/27/2008
Grylls enters the swamps of Louisiana where he kills an alligator with a knife, and catches a catfish with his bare hands
#8 - Texas
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/2/2009
In Western Texas, Grylls falls to earth from an upturned biplane into the parched Chihuahuan Desert; he traverses deep gorges, locates an oasis and takes on a diamond back rattlesnake.
#9 - Scotland
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 7/20/2007
Bear offers survival tips in Scotland's Cairngorms National Park. Included: using moss to purify water; skinning a deer; cooking a rabbit.
#10 - Western Pacific
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/1/2009
Grylls is on a desert island, south of Papua New Guinea. He wades across a shark-infested tidal channel, climbs crumbling volcanic cliffs, leaps over a 100-foot death drop, and constructs a bamboo windsurfer to make his escape.
#11 - Namibia
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/9/2008
Grylls parachutes into the heart of the Namib desert.
#12 - Canadian Rockies
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/1/2009
While in the Canadian Rockies, Grylls is buried alive in an avalanche, swims long distance beneath an ice-covered lake, and is airvac-ed to the hospital when an icy glissade goes horribly wrong.
#13 - Norway: Edge of Survival
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/3/2011
Bear and his team are in Norway. Armed with the latest technology they'll be creating the harshest conditions possible while sensors monitor how Bear copes trying to survive in one of the world's most beautiful but wettest countries.
#14 - Bear Eats
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/21/2007
Grylls offers tips on dining in the wild, with some unusual offerings that are not necessarily palatable.
#15 - Hawaii - Mount Kilauea
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/1/2006
On Mount Kilauea, an active volcano, Bear climbs down a rope from a helicopter and demonstrates how to create a gas mask, escape from a moving lava flow, find water in a lava tube and get honey from a bee's nest.
#16 - Red Rock Country
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/12/2011
Bear treks through Southern Utah's Red Rock Country.
#17 - Bear's Ultimate Survival Guide Part Two
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/16/2009
In his ultimate survival guide Grylls takes on dangerous snakes, fishes for catfish using his finger as bait and joins tribes who survive in the worlds toughest terrains, eats raw goats testicles in the Sahara, and hunts porcupines.
#18 - Alaska
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/9/2009
Grylls returns to the wilderness of Alaska to survive the dangerous terrain of the Last Frontier.
#20 - Romania
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/16/2009
Grylls heads to Transylvania where he takes on a bear and dangerous water channels.
#21 - European Alps
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/24/2006
Bear Grylls, outfitted with only a knife, water bottle, cup and flint, parachutes into the French Alps, where he builds a snow shelter and explains how to survive a fall into a frozen lake.
#22 - Jungle
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/30/2007
Survival techniques for Panama's mangrove swamps and jungle.
#23 - Ireland
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/3/2008
Grylls jumps from a boat a kilometre off the west coast of Ireland. He travels down the coast before turning inland to cross the bogs. Here he retrieves a sheep carcass from a bog whose skin he uses as a sleeping bag (sheeping bag), a waterproof sack, and a flotation device.
#24 - Yukon
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/19/2009
Grylls wraps up warm as he heads to the frozen wastelands of North Canada. He goes underground to search an abandoned mine, and he takes to some fast moving water.
#25 - Costa Rican Rainforest
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/17/2006
Bear Grylls, equipped only with a knife and a water bottle, tries to survive in the Costa Rican rain forest after parachuting onto the Osa Peninsula. He faces swarms of insects, poisonous snakes, dense jungle and mangrove swamps.